Meet the Authors

This site gives you easy ideas and tools to streamline and automate your home. We want you to have margin for when life gets super busy or hits a speedbump. We want your home to look and feel the way you’ve always wanted. Most importantly, we want you to be able to create more time and space for what truly matters most and enjoying this ‘one wild and precious life.’

Lona Praytor

Welcome to Making Lemonade! I’m Lona, the owner and current author, and I’m thrilled to continue the journey that Carrie began in 2009. Carrie created this space to help overwhelmed women save time, money, and space, and I’m honored to build on that foundation.

As a former child therapist turned stay-at-home mom, I’ve seen firsthand how creating calm, organized environments can reduce stress and bring more joy into our lives. Like many of you, I know what it’s like to feel buried under a never-ending to-do list, juggling the demands of home and family life.

My goal is to help you transform your space so it feels like a true sanctuary—a place where you can recharge and focus on what matters most.

With easy-to-implement tips, DIY projects, and practical organization strategies, I’m here to guide you in creating a home that works for you, not against you. It’s not about perfection, but about creating systems that bring peace and functionality to your everyday life.

I believe our homes should be places of rest, not sources of stress. Whether you’re struggling with clutter or just looking for fresh ideas, Making Lemonade is here to help you simplify, organize, and create more room for the things and people you love.

Let’s take this journey together!

Carrie Higgins

Carrie Higgins, founder of Making Lemonade and author of the book Organization Hacks, started this site to help overwhelmed women save time, money and space at home so they can focus on what matters. such as their family, friends, and most importantly— themselves.

She’s able to teach women how to reduce stress and overwhelm at home because she has overcome it herself. Like many of you, she spent all her free time cleaning and trying to keep up with paperwork, and very little time taking care of herself or doing what she loved.

It felt stressful, chaotic, and exhausting.

Knowing things had to change, she taught herself how to save time on each and every aspect of running her home and family life. She automated, streamlined, deleted, and organized.

It’s not always perfect, but we don’t aim for perfect (after all, perfectionism is unsustainable.)

PR & Press

Carrie has been featured in publications such as The Good Life magazine, Storage Solutions, Women’s Day, Women’s World magazine, Apartment Therapy, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and on BHG.com, CountryLiving.com, and CaryMagazine.com. She was also the keynote speaker at Be Well Philly, a large gathering of health and wellness minded women sponsored by Philadelphia Magazine. Her story was featured also featured on an episode of Rip & Renew on HGTV.

She’s worked with many amazing brands including Ford Motors, Martha Stewart, Glidden Paint, Michaels, Pixar, Disney, World Market and Serena & Lily (to name a few.)

Ready to go from feeling stressed and overwhelmed to calm and in control? You’re in the right place!

You deserve more time to do what matters, and more space for what you love. Making Lemonade will help you get there!

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